Investigators search for a cause in that massive london Apartment Fire as the death toll rises to 17 with many more still missing. Horrendous, horrendous. It was just completely engulfed. Why some are saying that building was an accident just waiting to happen. We have all that plus the father of the american student freed from a north korean prison speaking out. The wrongway crash that could have been much worse. And queGwyneth Paltrow gets ready to host a special hour of today, thursday, june 15, 2017. This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. Its a thursday morning. Glad to have you with us. Suffice it to say, we have a lot going on in your world. Let us get started. The president is meeting with Steve Scalise who remains in Critical Condition this morning. We have the investigation into that shooting covered from all angles. And were going to speak with congressman Roger Williams and his st
Host we welcome to our desk for the first time one davidson, davidson, warren republican p or i get your special on last nights election and what you think it means in this congressional cycle. Guest it is exciting. I am happy she won the race. For those who said it was a mandate, i hope they great and i hope they agree. Host in South Carolina, do you overplayed their hands, calling it a possible mandate leading up to the election . When you go all in on a race and lose, i would say yes, they are played. Host the year that you have been appear, tax reform is one of your top issues on capitol hill. Yesterday, paul ryan laid out what was billed as a major tax reform speech. He still promised to get tax reform done by the end of the year in the house. What do you make of the deadline . Guest that is not as ambitious as i would hope we could pull off. I would like to see it happen swiftly. It is incredibly important because fiscal policy has been for years. Ant tax reform has been necessar
Host we welcome to our desk for the first time one davidson, davidson, warren republican p or i get your special on last nights election and what you think it means in this congressional cycle. Guest it is exciting. I am happy she won the race. For those who said it was a mandate, i hope they great and i hope they agree. Host in South Carolina, do you overplayed their hands, calling it a possible mandate leading up to the election . When you go all in on a race and lose, i would say yes, they are played. Host the year that you have been appear, tax reform is one of your top issues on capitol hill. Yesterday, paul ryan laid out what was billed as a major tax reform speech. He still promised to get tax reform done by the end of the year in the house. What do you make of the deadline . Guest that is not as ambitious as i would hope we could pull off. I would like to see it happen swiftly. It is incredibly important because fiscal policy has been for years. Ant tax reform has been necessar
Afternoon. I want to thank the secretary of state counselor and chief of joint staff for the day of very productive meetings. We are quite pleased to host the first session of the dialogue since we agree on the format in the president ial summit. This is one of four distinct dialogue areas that will implement the president s vision for constructive results bilateral relations. We are sustaining these regular talks at a much higher level then principles in both the civilian and military agencies. President trump looks forward to his visit to china later this year. As we said before, relations have undergone a profound transformation in the past 40 years. These dialogs provide an opportunity to consider how we are going to engage and live with one another over the next four years. Furthering the relationship we need to expand areas of cooperation as we did today on issues that we have secured interest but we also need to address directly and frankly areas where we face threats or have di
Members about the president s plan to privatize the nations Traffic Control system and reductions to Capital Investment and surface transportation projects. This is two hours. The subcommittee will come to order. Before i begin, i just i know that all of our minds are a little bit in many ways elsewhere because of the incidents yesterday at the baseball practice field, and i just wanted to once again mention how all of us are praying for, obviously, the whip, mr. Steve scalise, the two Brave Police Officers that were injured, along with a member of the staff and a former member of the staff who were injured. So just we cannot forget them and we wish their full recoveries. With that this morning we welcome secretary chow to testify on the fiscal year 2018 budget for the department of transportation. I dont have to tell any of you that secretary chow comes to this position with thank lone o most impressive records of Public Service that anyone will see, having served as chairman of the m